The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . e-ended design has remained a very popular methodof shaping craft in the more northerly climes of thiscontinent. Not merely in Norway but in Scotland to-daymany of the fishing craft are of this type, while bothlifeboats and whalers boats are designed on much thesame principle. One of the most surprising facts, when we come toexamine the history of shipbuilding, is the remarkableproficiency which was possessed by the Vikings of of their modes of burial was to place the body of thegreat sea-king in his ship, which was ha
The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . e-ended design has remained a very popular methodof shaping craft in the more northerly climes of thiscontinent. Not merely in Norway but in Scotland to-daymany of the fishing craft are of this type, while bothlifeboats and whalers boats are designed on much thesame principle. One of the most surprising facts, when we come toexamine the history of shipbuilding, is the remarkableproficiency which was possessed by the Vikings of of their modes of burial was to place the body of thegreat sea-king in his ship, which was hauled ashore, andafter his various possessions—his horse, dogs, and weapons—had been placed by his side, a sepulchral chamber wasbuilt over the ship and an enormous mound of earthwas erected over the vessel and its contents. Since thesecond half of the nineteenth century a number of theseViking ships have been excavated, and the excellent stateof preservation in which they have been found is due, nodoubt, to the fact that the air has been excluded for so 54. A Viking Ship The sails of Viking ships were frequently gaily coloured and decorated with quaint the dragons head at the forward end of the ship, and the shields arranged along thebulwarks. IN NORTHERN EUROPE many centuries. The most recent discovery was in 1903,at Oseberg, on the western side of Christiania Fjord; butfine as this rraft was found to be, she was not so gloriousa specimen as that unearthed at Gogstad, near toSandefjord, in the year 1880. From these excavatedvessels, together with a vast amount of detail left to usin old Scandinavian literature—in the Sagas whichnarrate the deeds of the sea-kings, their mighty exploitsand wanderings in their long-ships—it is now possible toform a very full picture of what a Viking ship lookedlike when she came foaming across the turbulent North may perhaps be of some convenience to the reader ifwe here reconstruct what would have met our eyes had w
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